I would ask doctor to rule out blood clot.

Read the last few posts here about DVT: https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3123965/last

I'd take her to the ER asap.

I had a DVT in my left leg in 2015. What you're describing sounds exactly like that. Get your wife to an ER and demand an ultrasound. She could throw that clot and have it go to her lungs or brain and kill her almost immediately.

Agree, worth getting seen at an ER. I wouldn't go in "demanding" anything, but express your concern to the doctor about a blood clot. Sometimes a blood test can reasonably rule out a blood clot if the doctor thinks it's unlikely. Lungs are actually a good filter to prevent blood clots to the brain. Small blood clots typically only require a few weeks of injections, or pills to "thin" the blood. Large blood clots require admission to go on a blood thinner IV drip.

Let the doctors do what they do. The last person I saw with a suspected blood clot also had kidney failure suspected to be from COVID as well. Just a reminder that there's a difference between simply surviving a COVID infection, and surviving without any long term effects (known in the medical realm as morbidity vs mortality). Anyone who argues that fatality rate of infection is the only thing that matters doesn't know what they're talking about.

Everyone, get your vaccine, and encourage those around you to get them.

Please give us an update. Hopefully it's nothing.

I have nearly lost my wife twice to PE, get to the ER now.

cbminers said:

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MiMi said:

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Read the last few posts here about DVT: https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3123965/last

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You might even be able to have your PCP order the tests on an outpatient basis at one of the hospital system imaging facilities and avoid the ER altogether.

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If the clinical suspicion is high enough to be ordering a test for a potential emergency as an outpatient, the patient should be sent to the ER. Unless that PCP can get the test done quickly and is willing to follow up with the results, call the appropriate specialist, and/or admit the patient if needed, they should not be ordering the test.

Normally I'm a big advocate of more people utilized their PCPs/PCPs doing more work and not reflexively going to the ER, but if they truly think there's a serious potential for a bad disease process, the answer is always go to the ER. Now if they see the patient and can reasonably rule out a pathology on ultrasound in the office, or by history, then that's different.

TarponChaser said:

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Seriously- go to the ER.

I had an acquaintance die from DVT shortly before I had my experience. He was in great shape but had his knee scoped in early 2015 and a few weeks later developed a clot that broke loose, went to his brain, gave him a massive stroke and killed him.

I'm fortunate that I don't have the genetic markers for it to be an ongoing issue and my doc is one of the foremost authorities on DVT in the country. He was largely able to pinpoint my causes to dehydration caused by drinking followed up by immobility due to a long flight home from a vacation (where said drinking occurred).

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We lost a freshman defensive football player with a blood clot back in the late 90s if I remember correctly.

He had knee surgery a few weeks before and died in his dorm room after getting up from his bed.

PJYoung said:

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TarponChaser said:

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Seriously- go to the ER.

I had an acquaintance die from DVT shortly before I had my experience. He was in great shape but had his knee scoped in early 2015 and a few weeks later developed a clot that broke loose, went to his brain, gave him a massive stroke and killed him.

I'm fortunate that I don't have the genetic markers for it to be an ongoing issue and my doc is one of the foremost authorities on DVT in the country. He was largely able to pinpoint my causes to dehydration caused by drinking followed up by immobility due to a long flight home from a vacation (where said drinking occurred).

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We lost a freshman defensive football player with a blood clot back in the late 90s if I remember correctly.

He had knee surgery a few weeks before and died in his dorm room after getting up from his bed.

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Brandon Fails.

You're correct. And I believe Outdoors Board legend, Dr. Drue Neely Ware, c/o 1980 (aka NW80), also known as Neel to his friends (I felt privileged to be in that group) died in 2019 from the same. He'd had his hip replaced a month or two before he passed and as I understand it, his body threw a clot while he was fishing in northern New Mexico that killed him.

Sorry. Should have updated.

When I started to press my wife on where the actual pain was, she said it was less in her calf and more in her foot, specifically her arch.

She reminded me she had gone to the trampoline park with our older son and that she had actually gone on the trampoline with him.

So long story short, she thinks she aggravated some sort of injury or arthritis from all the years of dance she did when she was younger.

She rested her foot and said she's without pain now.

I'm still keeping an eye on her, but fortunately this looks like a non-covid issue and more an issue of getting old

Thanks everyone for the concern.

This is great news!